Other Awards and Honors
2008 Elected Positions and Offices
Steven Wiley appointed to Burroughs Wellcome Fund Advisory Committee
Steven Wiley, Lead Scientist for Biology at DOE's EMSL, was appointed to an advisory committee for the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, a private, philanthropic organization. The committee will evaluate applications for their Institutional Program Unifying Population and Laboratory-Based Sciences. This program was created to bridge the gap between population approaches to human health and basic biomedical research. The program provides grants of $500,000 per year for 5 years to stimulate graduate student training programs and to bring together scientists working in fundamental sciences as well as those in schools of medicine and public health.
As a member of the advisory committee, Wiley will evaluate and provide guidance on the directions and progress of the institutional program. This includes reviewing numerous grant proposals and attending conferences, such as an upcoming workshop on microbial systems in Denver, Colorado.
Wiley was appointed to the committee, a long-term commitment, because of his scientific and educational expertise in integrating molecular and systems biology, such as the research he is leading as Director of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s Biomolecular Systems Initiative. In addition, he has experience in serving on advisory committees to the National Institutes of Health as well as university advisory committees at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Vanderbilt University.
(announced 7/1/2008)